This is pleasent to walk there the night

The excellent Lenox Napier points us to http://www.ibiza-tourism.net/. This is one of a legion of sites dedicated to spamourism–posting ostensibly useful, functionally redundant tourism information with the sole genuine purpose of harvesting Google adclicks. The domain registree, who is apparently based in France, is too thick or too lazy to use machine translation, so we get stuff like:

This is the walk situated around the San Antoni bay (Badia de Portamny). This is pleasent to walk there the night. At one end of the walk is situated Sa Punta de Moli (place where an old mill is maintained) and at the other, this is San Antonio center with a splendid fountain which rate its movements with the the music diffused on the public place.

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